"the slogan was "also a bit of a jab at a lot of the other companies, especially our competitors, who at the time, in our opinion, were kind of exploiting the users to some extent"."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_evil

In a perfect world, when a captcha pops up demanding you prove you are a human and tells you to select all the pictures with a car, *everybody* picks all the pictures that don't have cars in them. That ought to freak the little non-human AI out.

(Yes, I just spent about 5 minutes doing this and eventually got to a screen where all of the pictures had the requested palm tree in them.)

"As a potential victim, it appears, there is nothing much a mobile device user can do if they are using a SIM card with S@T Browser technology deployed on it, except requesting for a replacement of their SIM that has proprietary security mechanisms in place."

"An estimated 600,000 GPS tracking devices for sale on Amazon and other large online merchants for $25–$50 have been found vulnerable to a handful of dangerous vulnerabilities that may have exposed user's real-time locations,"

This article has links to the studies that bring Google's and other profiling advertisers practices in the open."This isn’t the first time that Google has used disingenuous arguments to suggest that a privacy protection will backfire. ...it’s an attempt to persuade users and policymakers that an obvious privacy protection—already adopted by Google’s competitors—isn’t actually a privacy protection."

Don't do this, but look at how easy it is to create phishing pages, including one for ProtonMail. Certificate verification, making sure you've gone to the intended URL, instead of clicking on the link in the email you just got, or the link in the PDF, etc. are essential.

"While this news is initially shocking, the more you think about it, the less shocking it becomes. In a statement to Congress in April of 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company does not use user audio for ads. He did not, however, disclose what the audio is used for."